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The perfect team with perfect people: Myth or reality

Loads of time is spent by people and organizations to interview the right people and hire the “perfect” people for the role. Many people believe if you get the right people and get the best in each department, you win. Does it really work this way? My own belief and experience is to the contrary. You cannot hire 11 Sachin Tendulkars and win the IPL.

Valid reasons for this theory are:

1) Sachin x 11 would be too expensive a proposition and likelihood of viability and profitability are much lesser. Especially for a start up.

2) There is always a risk involved that so many perfect people will have egos and fixity ideas which may not allow them to play like a team. They are less likely to follow the Captain’s (CEO) vision with young contagious enthusiasm.

3) Once the competition knows the weakness of one and entire team collapses, because they all are predictable.

4) Most important reason that such scenario don’t work is the “mismatch”. When you are just starting your system or your organization is young; you are bound to be less than perfect and if you employ all “perfect” people, the relationship will not last long as perfect people would seek more perfect employment opportunities.

So, my radical thought of the day is, when hiring somebody, just look at the broad possibility of an overall “fit” in your system. Start up systems evolve with time and role of people working with you will evolve and gradually they will fit into their rightful niches. It is role of the Captain or the CEO to keep the people in their correct dynamic niche which changes from time to time. As they evolve their roles should evolve, and usually the best “fit” in the organization are the ones who grow with the company.

Perfect team is not made of perfect people, rather it is bunch of imperfect people (including CEO) who synchronize together to build a perfect team.

The perfect team with perfect people: Myth or reality
Reviewed by Sumer Sethi
on
Thursday, November 06, 2014
Rating: 5

About Dr. Sumer Sethi

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Unique blend of academic excellence and entrepreneurship, heading leading firms in India- Teleradiology Providers, pioneering company providing teleradiology services and DAMS (Delhi Academy of Medical Sciences) Premier test preparation institute in India for MD/MS/MCI preparation. He has also been an invited faculty member at various conferences, including Teleradiology in IRIA 2008 and 2011, Hospital Build Middle East, Congress of the Brain Tumor Radiology in Neuro-oncology Society. Dr. Sethi is Editor-in-Chief of Internet Journal of Radiology. He has a keen interest in Web 2.0 technologies and in maintaining his famous radiology blog, which has been featured in multiple international journals.